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<p>The Nuclear Innovation and Research Office (NIRO) is an independent body, hosted
by the National Nuclear Laboratory and contracted, by Government, to provide technical
support and expert secretariat services to the Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory
Board (NIRAB). It was created at the end of 2013.</p><p>With the exception of the
Chair, appointments to the NIRAB are unfunded, however Government has currently contracted
NIRO for services worth £650,000 and this contract runs until March 2015. The NIRO
employs four full time staff who are currently seconded from the NNL and Rolls Royce
Ltd. The wages of these employees are included in the contractual arrangements. The
skills make-up of the staff in the NIRO is a matter for the organisation itself.</p><p>The
NIRO does not undertake research in its own right and, to date, has not issued any
publications. The NIRO, in its function as the secretariat to the NIRAB, is considering
the best way to make future work or documentation publically available.</p>
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